This is the first time I heard of a patch calling for the game CD's and reinstalling the whole game.

If anyone hears for sure what the patch is for, please post. It's my understanding that Sergey was working on a patch for the problem of the cursor becoming unresponsive. I don't know if it was supposed to fix anything else.

Originally posted by Jenny100: This is the first time I heard of a patch calling for the game CD's and reinstalling the whole game.

If anyone hears for sure what the patch is for, please post. It's my understanding that Sergey was working on a patch for the problem of the cursor becoming unresponsive. I don't know if it was supposed to fix anything else.

Jenny...It was pretty weird to have to install the whole thing all over again.. Even stranger... altho I didn't get very far past the beginning of the game, I saved it.. and the savgame was still there when I fired up Aura!

Basically [and I probably should have verified this before I bothered with the file!].. an MSI is an MS installer package. Maybe it DID patch Aura.. and they just forgot to write out all the rest of it? Don't know.. don't care. I'd just like to be able to play the game.. someday.

SillyEagle, C'ris posted in the "discussions" thread that it fixed the problem with the "cursor" So who know's maybe they will still come up with something that will work..meantime..I am going to quit messing with the game..too aggrivating! Glynn

HAPPY DANCE!!!!! Finished Aura, cool ending! The patch worked for me. I got a email from Dreamcatcher tonight. It fixed the no cursor syndrome. Here is the info they gave me. And yes you do have to install the game all over but worth it!

MESSAGE:We now have a patch that addresses this issue. I have included a linkto download it and instructions on how to install the patch.

- Install game - Click on the link above to download the patch and save it to yourdesktop- Unzip & extract patch to a new folder (it may be easier to create afolder on your desktop)- Insert cd1 again and press SHIFT Key so that the system will not startreading the CD - Double click on Aura1Patch file - A dialogue box will open - Select "Repair Aura Fate of the Ages" - Click ok and the installation/repair will start again, it takesapproximately 20 minutes

When finished, the files will be repaired and you can start playing thegame.

1. Random crash (fixed in Aura1.exe)2. Crash in certain points in the game (fix in GlobalSettings.def)2. Bell can be picked up in 3rd world prematurely (fixed in scene 577)3. Direction cursor disappearing (fixed in Aura1.exe)4. Fixes save/load problem with cursor disappearing (fixed in Aura1.exe)5. Fix for empty load problem (fixed in Puzzle_load)

helloI have a problemWhen i go to thw spirit world for the first time; another click to move forward... and it get out to desktop. I have used the patch but it does not work. I wonder if anyone can help me.if you have savegames right after that area you con help me with sendig it to mereza3rezaei@yahoo.com

I spoke to Dreamcatcher support over the phone. They told me another patch was under development and that I should upgrade my DirectX to 9.0c to fix the crashes. I tried this and all it did was change it so that instead of getting no error when it crashed I now get error messages. The first was a crash related to ntdll.dll. Most crashes with this error are caused by something in the program being incompatible with XP. I decided to try the game in compatibility mode. This time I got one of 2 errors. Under Windows 98/ME mode dmime.dll caused the crash and under 2000 mode dmsynth.dll caused the crash. Both of these dlls are part of DirectMusic. This tells me it is sound card related. I am using Soundblaster Live with the latest Creative drivers. I've tried adjusting the acceleration but it didn't make a difference. I hope this next patch does something. I am going to call them again to see if the errors tell them anything.